Okay I realize it’s been awhile since I posted, but I’ve been in a bit of a coma — a coma created by Ma Jian. His latest novel Beijing Coma  is what did it. The book is about the events in the building to that June day in 1989, and told through the memories of a …Read More
Neocha, China’s premier online creative community, has just released the third album on its Netlabel: Tomorrow’s Afternoon Tea / 明天的下åˆèŒ¶. You may remember a post a while back where we interviewed Neocho CEO Sean Leow, and talked about their awesome NEXT player, which streams indie Chinese music for free. The new album contains 10 tracks …Read More
When China shifted its view on food subsidies this week, it was considered a major about face for a country that has been open to free trade for the last 30 years. According to writer Naomi Klein in the conclusion of her book The Shock Doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism, this turn is happening …Read More
I have to say that I was really surprised when I opened up a Sara Bongiorni’s A Year Without Made in China — the story about one family’s attempt to boycott Chinese products for all of 2005 — there wasn’t much about China in it. The book is subtitled “One Family’s True Life Adventure in the …Read More
For the last month or so I’ve been really stressed out at work. When I get into a state like that I tend to look for books that help giving me a new perspective on the situation. That’s how I found Mo Yan’s Life and Death are Wearing Me Out, the story of Ximen Nao, …Read More
Since it’s the May Labour Day holiday in China this week, lots of Chinese are out traveling, and since I hate crowds I am not. What I did spend my first day of the three day holiday doing was finishing up Rob Gifford’s great book China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising …Read More
Managing the Dragon provides very good insights into what was needed in the 90s to bring a successful fund into China to build a world-class Chinese automotive components company. The author, Jack Perkowski, started out as a successful Wall Street investment banker. After twenty years, he took an interest in China and moved his family, …Read More
Well maybe he wasn’t the only inspiration for British uberspy James Bond, but Peter Fleming certainly was one crazy laowai. Peter Fleming was the older brother of Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming and one of the best known travel writers of 1930s England. A very rich adventure writer, the Flemings came from an important banking family …Read More
For all those Chinese parents looking to get their kids into Harvard or Yale, they should take their noses out of those how-to-books writen by parents of successful students and instead read the biography of one of their countrymen. Yung Wing’s My Life in China and America (China Economic Review Publishing) is the biography of …Read More
When I got an e-mail a few months back from book publisher DK to see if I was interested in reviewing their new book, “China: People Place Culture History“, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I had, wrongly, assumed that the book would simply be a token collection of pages about …Read More
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